'The perfect sinisterly magical escape' Stephanie GarberCaraval meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
in this deliciously dark young adult fantasy about a girl who makes a deal with a magical
secret society to enter a potentially deadly competition for the chance to avenge her mother's
death. Ever since a vampire murdered her mother Ava has been determined to get revenge. This
all-encompassing drive has given her the fuel she needed to survive foster home after foster
home. But it's been ten years since anyone's seen a vampire and Ava has lost hope that she'll
ever find one . . . until she stumbles across a hidden magic show where she witnesses
impossible illusions. The magicians may not be the bloodsuckers she's hunting but Ava is
convinced something supernatural is at play so she sneaks backstage and catches them in acts
they can't explain. But they've been waiting for her. The magicians reveal they're part of an
ancient secret society with true magic and Ava has the same power in her blood that they do.
If she joins them they promise to teach her the skills she needs to hunt vampires and avenge
her mother. But there's a catch: if she wants to keep the power they offer she needs to prove
she's worthy of it. And to do so she must put on the performance of her life in a sinister and
dangerous competition where illusion and reality blur and the stakes are deadly.
